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07 April 2011

Of Nice Ankles and Orange Tulips

I've been depressed for two days, crying for one of those days. I thought my entire iphoto album was gone forever. You see, I managed to fill a huge amount of my computer memory with photos and there was no more room in the inn.

Ryan went to those geniuses and they said to move my photos to an external hard drive, which is what we thought we did, but you know how those geniuses are, with their lightening finger clicking and scrolling. You think you'll remember what they tell you to do, making it look as easy as putting together a PB & J sandwich.

Before we knew it all photos were gone. Really. I cried, all those birthdays and vacations, and even the photos that never make it to a blog or grandparents, but you love to scroll through and smile as you remember the exact moment you took them. I knew I needed to come to grips and so was trying to be grateful for so much good in my life.

5 healthy children, a husband who cherishes me,

my faith, my green counters,

that I have nice ankles [my grandma always told me so, so it must be true], really, I was counting my blessings, naming them one by one.

It was more and more encouraging and eye opening to identify what provides true color and vibrance in my life.

The box of mangos Ryan brought home from the little Asian grocery store around the corner,

and the orange tulips sitting on the table, all suddenly seemed more fragrant and beautiful.

I went to visit those geniuses again today, and there was good news, I almost hugged that man from across the counter.

I feel your pain. I'm married to a computer and jack of all trade genius. We had a call from my aunt one evening to inquire if he could help them with a small problem. Yeah. Recovering all photos off of their recently crashed and factory redone machine. It wasn't a small feat, but the man did it.

We tell all our family and friends to not only keep the photos on the pc, but on a back up in the house, and pay the nominal monthly fee with a 3rd party to back up the stuff most important to you - photos.

Oh, I HOPE and hope you get those back! I have had that happen more than once. We've lost some things, but most of the time they can get them back. Yea for geniuses! It's so scary and emotional though! All those memories!!!

I would be devastated. This is a HUGE fear of mine. It keeps me from deleting anything from my camera until it goes from my computer file to my Costco online albums. Even then, I often wait until I print the photos. We plan on buying an external hard drive for our photos this next Christmas, but until then, and until I safely backup constantly, I think I fear that they might disappear. Maybe I should get Carbonite.

The ankle thing made me laugh and made me decide to finally comment...I remember when I was in my dating years (that was 5 kids ago) and this one guy told me that he found me attractive, that is all except my ankles. I think I laughed out loud, I had no idea that people noticed ankles. (I only notice 'cankles'...you know when there is no ankle, the calf just seems to go down to the shoe)

I feel your pain. Some years back I had just put the finishing touches to a book catalogue which was due at the printer's the next day. Of course, the document was attacked by a virus. I frantically rang the help centre (ha!) and the advice given turned out to be the complete opposite of what should have been done. Lost the lot - have been paranoid ever since.

Hi Katy--I'm your cousin in Virginia (Bobette's granddaughter). I've commented before but wasn't sure if you knew who I was! Always love seeing your beautiful photos! You are lucky you didn't get the Peterson ankles--my sisters and I all inherited them. :)

I had the same experience last week....except it was totally my fault. I threw an entire cup of milk on my laptop that I had not backed up since my baby was born....yikes. I was so sick to my stomach....but the geniuses saved me and ALL my photos. I literally cried.....and looked like a weirdo to the entire Geek Squad.

I once had a computer crash. One day it just was blank. No one could retrieve a thing. Can you believe I didn't back anything up? I hate to even write that down. People looked at me and said "who doesn't back up?". Now I use Carbonite. Phew that feels so much better. I will say it took 4 weeks for Carbonite to do the initial retrieval of everything in our computer. Now it just does it at night seamlessly.

I don't think everything is lost. I think that there is a way to retrieve things (you need to find a computer freak, oops I am sorry I meant expert) because everything once put inside the computer leaves a kind of a signature in its memory so you may want to explore that segment a bit!

I once accidentally deleted an entire vacation on my camera on our way home from vacation so I hadn't even downloaded the pictures yet. I still cry when I think about it. We had just been to arches national park it was our first time and so I had a lot of pics. I was crying and my son said don't worry mom I took most of the same shots you did and then the pictures on his camera mysteriously dissapeared too......so strange and so sad.....Good luck with yours....

So glad that those geniuses were able to get your pictures back! What a blessing though, to be able to count each blessing in your life, one by one. Maybe our Heavenly Father was giving you a little opportunity here :)

Katy, So glad you are able to get your pics back!! We recently had a close call. My youngest used permanent marker all over the keyboard of our laptop...my [dear] husband used CLOROX WIPES to try to clean it off so I wouldn't find out...needless to say that moisture fried our laptop...I too went in crying to the geniuses...they got my pics back tho!!!!